GARY P. WORMSER, MD
19 Bradhurst Ave, Ste 200N Hawthorne, NY 10532
Phone:
914-493-8865
19 Bradhurst Ave, Ste 200N Hawthorne, NY 10532
Phone:
914-493-8865
25 Rockwood Pl, Ste 120 Englewood, NJ 07631-4957
Phone:
201-568-3335
Infectious Disease Assocs 1305 York Ave Fl 4 New York, NY 10021
Phone:
646-962-4800
Greenwich Hosp, Main Floor 5 Perryridge Rd, Ste 108 Greenwich, CT 06830
Phone:
203-869-8838
MKMG, Infectious Disease 90 S Bedford Rd Mount Kisco, NY 10549
Phone:
914-241-1050
BIMC, Infectious Disease 10 Union Square E, rm 3F New York, NY 10003
Phone:
212-844-8549
Ridgewood Infectious Disease Assocs 947 Linwood Ave, Ste 2E Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Phone:
201-447-6468
1100 Park Ave, Ste 1C New York, NY 10128-1202
Phone:
212-427-9550
ID Care Assocs 105 Raider Blvd, Ste 101 Hillsborough, NJ 08844
Phone:
908-281-0221
Mt Sinai Hosp, Infectious Disease 5 E 98th St, Fl 8 & 11 New York, NY 10029
Phone:
212-241-3150
An infectious disease specialist has specialized training in the diagnosis and treatment of contagious diseases.
Infectious diseases, also known as contagious or transmissible diseases, are those that stem from pathogen from a host organism. These infections may spread to other carriers through physical touch, airborne inhalation, bodily fluids or contaminated foods.
Infectious disease specialists identify whether the disease is caused by bacteria, a virus, a fungus or a parasite often through blood tests and then determine what course of treatment, if any, is necessary.
A Doctor of Medicine (MD) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In some countries, the MD denotes a first professional graduate degree awarded upon initial graduation from medical school. In other countries, the MD denotes an academic research doctorate, higher doctorate, honorary doctorate or advanced clinical coursework degree restricted to medical graduates; in those countries, the equivalent first professional degree is titled differently (for example, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in countries following the tradition of the United Kingdom)
In 1703, the University of Glasgow's first medical graduate, Samuel Benion, was issued with the academic degree of Doctor of Medicine.
University medical education in England culminated with the MB qualification, and in Scotland the MD, until in the mid-19th century the public bodies who regulated medical practice at the time required practitioners in Scotland as well as England to hold the dual Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees (MB BS/MBChB/MB BChir/BM BCh etc.). North American medical schools switched to the tradition of the ancient universities of Scotland and began granting the MoD title rather than the MB beginning in the late 18th century. The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York (which at the time was referred to as King's College of Medicine) was the first American university to grant the MD degree instead of the MB.
Early medical schools in North America that granted the Doctor of Medicine degrees were Columbia, Penn, Harvard, Maryland, and McGill. These first few North American medical schools that were established were (for the most part) founded by physicians and surgeons who had been trained in England and Scotland.
A feminine form, "Doctress of Medicine" or Medicinae Doctrix, has also been used by the New England Female Medical College in Boston in the 1860s. In most countries having a Doctor of Medicine degree does not mean that the individual will be allowed to practice medicine. Typically a doctor must go through a residency (medicine) for at least four years and take some form of licensing examination in their jurisdiction.